Drummond M7 class 0-4-4T
 30029 shunting at the north end of Tunbridge Wells West. Single line tunnel can be seen to the right of the signal box. photograph by Keith Harwood |
| Therefore all but two of the class survived into British
Railways days and continued to perform the same sort of work they did for the
LSWR and the SR. In the brief period from the end of WW2 and into the early
days of nationalisation some members of the class received Bulleid's
malachite green livery lined yellow edged with black. Numbers 242, 243 and 676
were painted malachite green by the Southern Railway in 1946/47. Nº243 was
re-numbered 30243 and re-lettered BRITISH RAILWAYS in unlined malachite in 1948
whilst the other two went direct from SOUTHERN malachite to lined black. The
three gained this livery in 1950, 1952 and 1952 respectively.
A further three locos, 30038, 30241 and 30244, were painted malachite by BR in 1948, lettered BRITISH RAILWAYS. They became lined black in 1953, 1953 and 1951 respectively. Other than for what is noted above, in BR days the class ran in lined black livery. |
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30053 at Tunbridge Wells West, in 1963, being coaled after
arrival with an Oxted push-pull.
photograph by Keith Harwood |
| 30379 and 30055 on shed at Three Bridges.
photograph by Keith Harwood |
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30133 at Three Bridges with H Class
Nº31005.
photograph by Keith Harwood |
| Grubby and minus smokebox number, 30133 is seen towards the
end of SR steam at Fratton on 3rd October 1965. According to the shed staff she
was one of 2 M7s in Fratton Shed at that time which were used as a source of
some spare parts for the IOW O2s. They had been withdrawn for some time when
this picture was taken.
photograph by Ray Soper |
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